Sentences with phrase «emerge near the poles»

The magnetic field lines originate in the Earth's core and emerge near the poles, where their angle of dip — or inclination — relative to Earth's surface is almost 90 degrees.

That favors a model in which much of Io's heat rises from deep within the moon and emerges near the poles, rather than spreading uniformly from shallower reservoirs of magma.

Not exact matches

The idea that Mercury might have frozen water emerged in the 1990s, when Earth - based radar telescopes detected highly reflective regions inside several craters near Mercury's poles.

Modeling Pluto's temperatures showed that when averaged over Pluto's 248 - year orbit, the latitudes near 30 degrees north and south emerged as the coldest places, far colder than either pole.